“I Definitely Need to Learn How to Do More Traffic Generating…”

@AuthorMissMae on Twitter said she needed to work on Traffic Generation. She mentioned she was trying some gimmicks that weren’t working for here. This was my response:

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My *Traffic Generation* Advice: I personally stay away from gimmicks and “swarms”.. haven’t tried what you are doing, but I don’t need to because what I do works already.. keeps me busy.

My advice is to stick to time tested methods.. These areas are what I spend most of my time on:

1) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) which includes link building.. (develop optimized content, utilize platforms like blogs)

2) Pay Per Click (PPC), Placement… Adwords, MSN, Yahoo.

3) Social Media.. as you are. Which includes driving traffic direct to your content pages and offers… and building relationships that can in themselves, indirectly, drive traffic (JVs etc).

2 of those don’t have to cost you much money; just time..

Gimmicks either don’t work, drive terrible, untargeted traffic or are short lived; these other methods will sustain you long term and when implemented properly can generate a lot of targeted traffic long term.

Also.. I haven’t seen your sites, but work on how you are monetizing them and focusing your traffic to pages that are ready to receive and convert traffic. Improve your conversion processes and funnel; test, test, test!

I’ll leave you with this, you can have all the traffic in the world, but if it isn’t targeted and you don’t have a good process to convert that traffic or a good offer, then it’s worthless.

All traffic is not created equal.. the same traffic can react differently depending on the landing pages they land on.

HTH!

-Matt Levenhagen

P.S. We cover the PPC here in the Blast Membership (geared towards testing markets with affiliate programs). If you want more training in these other areas like SEO and social media, we cover those areas at Xtreme Profits!

P.S.S. If you have a question about PPC that you’d like to throw at me on Twitter, follow me! And ask! My account here: Matt Levenhagen on Twitter Note though, I won’t promise I’ll be able to answer every question; I am a busy guy. My thinking is a few a week max?.. or more depending on their complexity.